It depends a lot on what you want to do and a little on what you’re used to. It’s some configuration overhead so it may not be worth the extra hassle if you’re only running a few services (and they don’t have dependency conflicts). IME once you pass a certain complexity level it becomes easier to run new services in containers, but if you’re not sure how they’d benefit your setup, you’re probably fine to not worry about it until it becomes a clear need.

It’s fun in a way that defies comparison.

That’s why I have one host called theBarrel and it’s just 100 Chaos Monkeys and nothing else

Weird. Is that a culvert at the top of the image? It makes sense that runoff from the parking lot would terminate in a drainage ditch, but why it would have sidewalls like that is beyond me. Maybe it was a misunderstanding from the construction crew.

I think the night the pipe froze it got to about 10F? I don’t know for sure but definitely colder than my house was designed for.

Correct, it’s just inside the exterior wall under the house, but the crawl space under the house is quite well ventilated so a brisk wind can bring it down to the same temperature as outside. My floors are currently very uncomfortable to walk on with bare feet.

Thanks! I’m quite pleased with it, mostly relieved that all the faucets are flowing and nothing under the house is leaking lol. I’m not sure how narrow an escape it was in actuality but it felt a bit like defusing a bomb.

For sure, I was sweating as soon as I realized the water wasn’t flowing. I’ve had pipes burst in winter before and I am not eager to repeat the experience. Fortunately for me I caught it and started applying heat quickly enough. it thawed out really quickly, so I’m guessing there wasn’t much ice in there, just enough to plug the pipe. Definitely felt like a close call.

It’s not bad, I’m going to finish the first book and will probably pick up the next one. Part of the charm is looking back at an era where ripping off Tolkien wasn’t such a cliche that that people actively avoided it. Brooks is far from the only person to do it so I’m not trying to be too hard on him, and it’s different enough that I’m still invested. My only real complaint about the writing is how he keeps reminding us of how the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Like, yeah, we know, Allanon laid out the stakes very clearly in the opening lore dump. Show, don’t tell. Overall I’m glad I picked it up.

EDIT: Also Walker Boh hasn’t shown up yet so I’m gonna at least try to get to them.

Ok I’m about halfway through The Sword of Shannara and I’m enjoying it but it really feels like we’re just doing The Fellowship of the Ring Magic Sword. They just got through the halls of the dead (which they had to take, even though they’re guarded by the dead and are super dangerous but it’s the fastest route) and I 100% expected Gandalf Allanon to die fighting the Balrog lake tentacle monster. But they get out, and Shae gets washed away by the river, and now Allanon’s like “welp, the one guy who could wield the Magic Sword against the Evil Sorcerer, the guy this whole quest is about, might be dead now. He might not be, but let’s abandon him and go find the Magic Sword anyway”. I mean the author has explicitly stated that Allanon might have other plans up his sleeve but I really don’t understand why finding Shae isn’t priority #1.

Not at all falling in love with a classic series of fantasy novels and then feeling alienated by a modern cinematic adaptation written for a younger audience and a different time that I nevertheless feel should exactly reproduce my experience of the original and therefore am invariably disappointed is one of my favorite things, I do it all the time. Already got the first audiobook downloaded, looking forward to it.

I see it, maybe a little more post-industrial. But if you’d told me these were stills from Rings of Power (especially the last one) I would have accepted it without question.

Also, how have I missed out on Shannara? It looks amazing, glad you mentioned it ❤️

“The Lord of the Rings” is a multimedia fantasy virus isn’t it. Just gets into everything.

Ah makes sense. Thanks!

Very cool, thanks. I migrated from top to htop a while ago and never looked back, but I occasionally have to use machines that don’t have htop so it might be time to get familiar with the default tooling.

Why do they say that SIGKILL bad practice? I use it as the second tap if a SIGTERM doesn’t knock something out. The link in the article is 404ing.

I think that’s broadly true, but just because you work somewhere as oppressive as IBM doesn’t mean you don’t long to breathe the free air. I like to imagine some of the contributors to the IBM songbook felt trapped in their day job and grabbed at that as the only available creative outlet, and they had their own magnum opus that they were going to publish just as soon as they felt safe enough to take the leap. I can’t find any credits for the songs so maybe they did.

This is as good an excuse as any to break out the ol’ IBM corporate songbook

Tech has always been suits at the top, hippies at best an annoying necessity because they know how to actually operate the machine.

I had thought I had seen both as well.

Skipped over the opening graphic on first read but just read it. Could they have picked a creepier sample sentence.

You sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, but it turned up an interesting answer. Turns out they are nondeterministic, and why they aren’t deterministic is still an open question https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/